Flood Quotes

You kind of flood an area and then you get a deep receiver and he was wide open. - Butch Pedersen

You have buildings standing in water for what could be up to 80 days, which is the time period they're thinking of before they can get the flood water out. What you're now talking about is constructive write-off for virtually all the buildings. - Dane Douetil

You have a young African-American taking some food from a grocery store after their home was ruined by a flood and it's called looting. A white person is taking food from a grocery store and it's called finding bread and soda. - Jesse Jackson

You get a 6- or 7-foot high tide, it's like a 2-foot wall backing up the flood water, preventing it from going out into the bay. Luckily, even though tides will be building next week, none will be unusually high. - Mike Pechner

You couldn't necessarily say, 'That hurricane, that storm, that flood only happened because of climate change,' (but) you're starting to see a pattern of extreme weather events. - Margaret Beckett

You could go for miles without seeing an end to the procession of troops and horses and wagons... An eagle aloft in the April winds high over the landscape would only see something iridescently blue and side-winding that looked like the floodplain of a river. - E. L. Doctorow

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. - Edward Abbey

You can't guarantee we won't see more water flow. What if we get flooded out? - Debbie Hunt

You can think of floodwaters as diluted sewage. - Mark Sobsey